Supreme Three Evasions Five Dissolutions 太上三辟五解秘法

Also known as The True Way to Immortality Through the Eight Earth-Hiding Arts of the Chu Minister.

The author is unknown, and it is presumably a Taoist text from the period between the Six Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties. Consisting of one volume, it is included in the Various Arts category of The Dongxuan Section of The Daozang.

Supreme Three Evasions Five Dissolutions

The book records the Art of Summoning Spirits to Free the Body, the Art of Corporeal Dissolution with a Bamboo Cane, and the Art of Transmigration and Body Replacement. It elaborates on using esoteric practices such as mental contemplation, corporeal dissolution and transmigration to make the soul and spirit separate from the physical body, conceal one's form and withdraw from the mortal world, evade death and attain immortality—these are the methods of the "Three Evasions".

It also expounds the "Five Deliverances" methods, stating that ingesting the Five Deliverance Talismans corresponding to metal, wood, water, fire and earth, combined with mental contemplation and incantation recitation, enables one to hide oneself and dispel disasters, the core of which lies in the doctrines of the Five Elements. Additionally, it contains the "Heavenly Robe Way", which instructs one to write Taoist Talismans on a man's placenta, dry it in the shade and keep it in one's bosom to achieve invisibility. There is also the "Two Evasion Methods to Enter the Netherworld of the Haotian Supreme Deity of the Grand Golden Tower", which details the arts of Yang Evasion and Yin Evasion; practicing these arts is said to allow one to walk between life and death, remaining unseen by thousands of people.

In essence, all the Taoist methods narrated in this book are miscellaneous arts for concealing one's form, withdrawing from the mortal world, evading death and ascending to immortality.